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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

William Blake

The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Flower Heaven Moon Night Silence Smile
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Enough Yourself
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Greatness Man Nature
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Death Forgiveness
Every harlot was a virgin once
WILLIAM BLAKE

Beginning One Liner
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enemy Friendship Heart Pain
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Black Desire Joy Walk
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fiction Life Yourself
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Sadness Time
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Friendship Man
Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy Truth
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Goodness Religion Talk

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